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12 On Your Side: Are prescription drug cards in the mail a trick or treat? 3 <br />(http://www.wrdw.com/home) <br />12 On Your Side: Are prescription drug cards in the mail a trick <br />or treat? <br />By: Jerome Collins (http://www.wrdw. com/station/bios/news/214424761.html) - Email <br />(mailto: Jerome. collins@ wrdw. com) <br />Posted: Thu 2:39 PM, Jan 16, 2014 <br />• <br />�� j ON YOUR t, <br />$ PRESCRIPTION SAVINGS CARDRD <br />SCBM? <br />I <br />News 12 at 6 o'clock / October 31, 2013 <br />AIKEN, SC (WRDW) <br />Thelma Thornton says she received several mailings with prescription cards in recent days. "It <br />looked really official to me like it came from the government, " says Thornton. <br />She is not alone. Rodney Maurice was wondering what it was all about too. "I'm like you seeing <br />United States Prescription Discounts and the envelope saying from Washington, D.C.,"says <br />Maurice. <br />It looks like it is part of the Affordable Care Act, but it is not. Some News 12 viewers have reported <br />receiving prescription savings 0 cards in the mail. The cards promise to save users up to 75% on <br />medicine. "I've just got them lying on the dining room table," says Thornton. <br />We showed the prescription cards to Tracie Mims at Family Pharmacy in Aiken. She says the cards <br />offer little to no savings and only work for the uninsured. <br />We asked her if it was more of a.trick than a treat when comparing the savings with the card to their <br />own cash 0 prices on various drugs.. "A trick," says Mims. While she is dressed for Halloween she <br />also wants to dispel some myths about using some discount drug cards. <br />"If we submit a claim for that discount carctihfies back close very close to our cash pride. <br />file:///C:/Users/mpursel/AppData/Local/Temp/1PSL4I9O htm 1/27/2014 <br />199 <br />